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COMMENT | Confronting evil and the fool in society


COMMENT | Confronting evil and the fool in society
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COMMENT | Many people have asked me why my father, the late Syed Hussein Alatas, joined politics.
Times were very different in the 1950s and early 1960s, both globally and in Malaysia. Syed Hussein Alatas studied the decolonising movements then erupting around the world. He was attracted to the ideas of the Indian, Indonesian, Latin American and African intellectual awakenings. These home-grown developments were ignited by anti-colonial, people-centred passions in response to the injustices of colonial administration.
Alatas studied similar popular uprisings and reform agendas around Southeast Asia. He focused on the role of intellectuals in conceptualising and exposing the failure of political leadership. In the process, Alatas hoped to mobilise political and social consciousness in Malaysia. He did this in a number of ways, as co-founder of Gerakan, through his academic and popular writings, ....

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